Analytics Translators Just another buzz word? Photo from unsplash, courtesy of social cut Mckinsey has called analytics translator the ‘new must-have role’ and has predicted we’ll need around 5 million of them. (1) FIVE MILLION. That’s more than the entire population of Los Angeles. The problem is that no one really knows what the term […] The post Analytics Translators appeared first on DSI Analytics ..read more

Sample Heading 3 It was Friday the 13th and I was almost out the door to deliver Day 4 of an Analytics Translator training at the University of Amsterdam.  I somehow hadn’t connected the dots that the university closings announced the previous evening meant that my training was cancelled until, by force of habit, I […] The post Giving My First Virtual Analytics Training During the Dutch Lock-down appeared first on DSI Analytics ..read more

Introduction & Meaning Mckinsey has called analytics translator the ‘new must-have role’ and has predicted we’ll need around 5 million of them (1). FIVE MILLION. That’s more than the entire population of Los Angeles. The problem is that no one really knows what the term ‘analytics translator’ means. Mckinsey seems to have slipped this term […] The post Analytics Translators appeared first on DSI Analytics ..read more

It was Friday the 13th and I was almost out the door to deliver Day 4 of an Analytics Translator training at the University of Amsterdam.  I somehow hadn’t connected the dots that the university closings announced the previous evening meant that my training was cancelled until, by force of habit, I glanced at my […] The post Giving My First Virtual Analytics Training During the Dutch Lock-down appeared first on DSI Analytics ..read more

Many companies fail, despite their best efforts, at reinventing themselves in the digital age. Harvard’s Sunil Gupta, who has worked with top organizations around the globe, presents valuable lessons-learned in his recent book, Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business.  This post is a summary and review of that book. Introduction: I really liked the […] The post Driving Digital Strategy (Review) appeared first on DSI Analytics ..read more

Title: Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business This book was published by HBR Press on July 24, 2018 Author: SUNIL GUPTA is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business at Harvard Business School, where he is the chair of the General Management Program and co-chair of the executive program on Driving Digital […] The post Review of “Driving Digital Strategy” (HBR Press) Part 1 appeared first on DSI Analytics ..read more

As you evaluate your strategy, perhaps considering a strategic pivot, gather and utilize as much data as possible to build a deep understanding in four areas: Your customers, Your competitors, The external factors that impact you, and Your own product. You may be surprised at what the data will show you. Your customers Customer data […] The post Four types of data for your corporate strategy appeared first on DSI Analytics ..read more

You’ve decided to make better use of your data, but what are the roles you need to hire?   It’s not just the ‘data scientists’.  If you want to make more data-driven business decisions and use analysis and machine learning to change how you operate, you’ll need to hire six types of data people. Data Engineers […] The post Six types of data people you need to hire appeared first on DSI Analytics ..read more

Big data technologies are playing an increasing role in cancer research. Two ways that I’ll touch on are the storage of an exponentially growing quantity of sequenced genomic data and analysis of pathway disruption by large-scale graph algorithms. There is an amazing diversity in cancer cells. A single tumor may contain 100 billion cells, each […] The post Big Data Storage and Graph-Based Analytics for Cancer Research appeared first on DSI Analytics ..read more

It is nearly impossible to talk about Big Data without making frequent reference to a broad ecosystem of computer code that has been made available for use and modification by the general public at no charge. History of open source In the early days of computing, computer code could be considered an idea or method, […] The post Open Source: A primer for Big Data appeared first on DSI Analytics ..read more